he charged permentor with first-degree murder and decided to seek the death penalty. weeks before the trial was scheduled to start, tim s friend george solomon, his sleep over alibi witness recanted his story, and how. he came up with a new story that permentor admitted he killed karen that night. blurted out a confession? that s a holy cow moment. death penalty cases can take a torturous path when reaching a courtroom. this had taken long years and despite building a strong circumstantial case, prosecutors did not have a murder weapon or physical evidence linking tim to the stabbing. defense attorney dudley kline. you have a complete lack of physical evidence. no bloody fingerprints. no bloody footprints or the door. the prosecutor was confident about the evidence he did have. i think circumstantial cases
a special prosecutor, stan levco, was appointed to represent the state. here you re going to start the third trial. how did you appraise your case when it became yours? when i first got it, it was just overwhelming. i ve tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases. i ve never tried anything like this. i ve never seen anything this complicated. reporter: with no philandering husband, no molesting father what remained was the theory of the crime that david left the basketball game, killed his family, then went back to play some more. once again, the prosecutor argued that the scene in the garage was staged to look like a sex crime. and her pants have been removed. correct. reporter: removed after she d been killed. what s more, the positioning of kim s body, he argued, was not what you d expect of a person who d been shot and fallen. her feet are under the car about, i think roughly ten, 12 inches under the car. her legs were at an angl
weeks before the trial was scheduled to start, tim s friend george solomon, his sleep over alibi witness recanted his story, and how. he came up with a new story that permentor admitted he killed karen that night. blurted out a confession? that s a holy cow moment. death penalty cases can take a torturous path when reaching a courtroom. this had taken long years and despite building a strong circumstantial case, prosecutors did not have a murder weapon or physical evidence linking tim to the stabbing. defense attorney dudley kline. you have a complete lack of physical evidence. no bloody fingerprints. no bloody footprints or the door. the prosecutor was confident about the evidence he did have. i think circumstantial cases are sometimes the best. they don t lie.
more than a dozen years after the murders, david camm faced his third jury. a special prosecutor, stan levco, was appointed to represent the state. here you re going to start the third trial. how did you appraise your case when it became yours? when i first got it, it was just overwhelming. i ve tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases. i ve never tried anything like this. i ve never seen anything this complicated. reporter: with no philandering husband, no molesting father what remained was the theory of the crime that david left the basketball game, killed his family, then went back to play some more. once again, the prosecutor argued that the scene in the garage was staged to look like a sex crime. and her pants have been removed. correct. reporter: removed after she d been killed. what s more, the positioning of kim s body, he argued, was not what you d expect of a person who d been shot and fallen. her feet are under the car abo
appeal of a first-degree murder charge is a long shot and yet you got it. well, i got it twice. that doesn t happen. doesn t happen. you know, if you don t believe in something bigger then you need to really evaluate your spirituality because you know, man, that was a god thing. reporter: the third david camm murder trial underway now in boone county, indiana. reporter: in august 2013, more than a dozen years after the murders, david camm faced his third jury. a special prosecutor, stan levco, was appointed to represent the state. here you re going to start the third trial. how did you appraise your case when it became yours? when i first got it, it was just overwhelming. i ve tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases. i ve never tried anything like this. i ve never seen anything this complicated. reporter: with no philandering husband, no molesting father what remained was the theory of the crime that david left the basketball game,